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Modern Japan
Westview Press 2012; US$ 50.00A thoughtful and richly detailed survey of modern Japanese history from the Tokugawa period to the present. more...
Imperial Japan
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 138.00A journalist on the Japan Chronicle for eleven years, the author collected in this volume the most significant current events for discussion. They include the financial crisis of 1927, hostilities with China and in particular Manchuria, Japan?s booming manufacturing industry, Japanese nationalism, Japan?s new empire and its place within the Far East... more...
Japan's National Identity and Foreign Policy
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 158.00This book is the first attempt to examine Japan?s relations with Russia from the perspective of national identity; providing a new interpretation of Japan?s perceptions of Russia and foreign policy. Alexander Bukh focuses on the construction of the Japanese self using Russia as the other, examining the history of bilateral relations and comparisons... more...
Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: From the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 168.00During the premodern period, Japan had significant political, economic and cultural relations with Korea. This book purports that this period, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, was the formative stage of the East Asian diplomacy and ideology which laid the foundations for foreign relations between these two countries in the modern period.... more...
The Kurillian Knot
Stanford University Press 2008; US$ 39.95This is the definitive book on Russo-Japanese relations by the leading authority on the topic. more...
Lebanon
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95Lebanon examines the ideological, political and social underpinnings of the attempted coup against General Chihab's government in Lebanon in 1961. The author analyzes the role of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, the history of the army in Lebanon and it role in Lebanese politics and the impact of the coup on Lebanese political life. This book... more...
Japan's Economic Power and Security
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00Is Japan re-emerging as a normal, or even a great, military power in regional and global security affairs? This Adelphi Paper assesses the overall trajectory of Japan?s security policy over the last decade, and the impact of a changing Japanese military posture on the stability of East Asia. The paper examines Japan?s evolving security debate, set... more...
Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 178.00This book explores the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists - who were, and who continue to be, surprisingly numerous in the Japanese academic world. It shows how they developed in their historical writing ideas of 'radical nationalism', which accepted presupposed ideas of Japan's 'ethnic homogeneity', but which they saw as a 'revolutionary... more...
Japan's Asia Policy
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 64.95This volume provides a timely and expert analysis of Japan's Asia policy as the country continues to address the future through trying to cope with the burden of a chequered past. Dr Mendl locates his expostion of Japan's policy towards both North-East and South-East Asia in a full historical and cultural context and importantly takes due account of... more...
Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan
Routledge 1997; US$ 195.00An inspiring analysis of events surrounding two women's attempted assassination of the Emperor of Japan, and the separate penalties faced by these women both in terms of their death sentences and the wider context surrounding their lives. more...









